This is Real Estate Rookie, episode 162.

My name is Ashley Care, and I am here with my co-host, Tony Robinson.

And welcome to the Real Estate Rookie podcast, where every week,

twice a week, me and my wonderful co-host, Ashley Care, talk all things real estate.

But with the focus on the guys and girls at the beginning of their investing journey,

we want to bring you the inspiration, the information that you need to get started as a real estate investor.

So Ashley Care, before we get started, let's just say that this has been like one of the most

technically difficult podcasts to record. Ashley and I have tried recording this like five times,

but our system keeps crashing. So we're hoping that we can get through this in one piece.

Yeah, and we really haven't even gotten past. This is a farthest we've made it so far right here

to the podcast. Oh yeah, we've set this intro five times. So hopefully it sounds super polished

by now. But Ashley, what's new with you? Give me let the quick rundown before the system explodes

on us. Yeah. Well, Tony, first of all, I got to say happy, belated birthday. Tell everyone

about your birthday just in case they're not following you on Instagram and gets to see all the

wonderful things Sarah does for you. Yeah. So I'm training for a fitness competition, which is about

five weeks away. And this last weekend was my birthday, but it was also my last cheat meal weekend

instead of having the usual birthday thing where people bring gifts. I just had like a big

cheat meal party and I asked all my friends and family to bring me on my favorite junk food. So

I had like one of the most epic cheat meals ever with every possible dessert and junk food you

could think of. And then my wife being the amazing person she is, she did some really cool things

for me, but she ended up rinsing like a slingshot. There's little like three-wheeled motorcycle

go-cart things. And we got to drive that around for the weekend too. So it was all around just like

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